Doll Quilt
By Jennifer, Moving HandsWe know all about Jennifer’s amazing hand piecing skills now! She made this doll quilt as a gift for a new baby’s nursery wall. The fabrics are by Liberty of London. Jennifer writes, “I used a bunch of small cuts to make this quilt. In Japan there are shops that do very small pieces of the whole range of Liberty fabrics so that patchworkers can have a big variety without spending the $$$ it takes to buy yardage.”

I have been looking at doll quilts for a while and at first I thought–hey, I don’t have kids yet and I don’t have any dolls, why would I want to make a doll quilt? After seeing so many lovely doll quilts like Jennifer’s I started to realize more and more that I need to get try making a doll quilt myself! There are so many projects I want to do and so little time and I think that doll quilting will allow me to get a more immediate gratification than the weeks/months it takes me to finish a full size quilt. Nice job Jennifer!!!

Thank you for all of the comments! The white squares are machine quilted along the quarter-inch seam allowance, to make it look like hand quilting. So I quilted each square individually. This was a gift that I needed to get out, so I was definitely happy to finish it with my sewing machine.

This doll quilt is so beautiful. It would be a dream come true having more variety of quilt fabrics here. Quilting, in Brazil, is something that is now beginning to be known, and popular, and is still expensive, with just 2 or 3 fabric brands and most of notions are imported. We all hope that while growing its popularity, grows the variety of fabrics. The cotton industry here is strong but mostly for jersey and blends.

I love it! I need to consider doll size quilts – I always think I have to do a larger size like twin, full, queen etc. Seems so overwhelming so I never start – these smaller sizes don’t seem like such a huge mountain to climb. Beautiful work!

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